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@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@ This is the TODO for debhelper. As more and more people use debhelper, this list grows - I welcome patches to fix items on it! +Bugs: + +* all commands should print a warning message if non-cumulative parameters + are given more than once (ie, two -u's to dh_gencontrol). (#22588) + (Bug currently under dispute, I think this is bogus). + Wishlist items: -* Make dh_* "use strict". * Make dh_movefiles remove emptied directories after it's moved all the files out of them (#17111). +* info support for debhelper (currently implemented, but I hate how I did it, + so it's not in the package.) (#15717) * enhance dh_installmanpages so it associates binaries and man pages and installs the man pages into the correct areas to suit the binaries they document. I may need to make this only happen when a switch is given, to @@ -20,19 +27,18 @@ Wishlist items: they might have; still it would be nice to check them too, just to make debhelper more flexible.) One easy fix is to add umask 022 to dh_lib, however, there may be unforeseen ramifications of such a change. -* All programs should also make sure the files they install are owned by - root.root. Situation is currently the same as with permissions above, plus - dh_installchangelogs is fixed. * something should add ldconfig calls properly to the postinst of packages that contain shared libraries. maybe dh_makeshlibs? But it wasn't designed to do that originally, and even worse, it is often run after dh_installdeb, so the fragments wouldn't go into the postinst. So maybe a - new script is called for. But it's probably be best to just have a switch - to enable this. + new script is called for. * Need a way to make dh_strip not strip any static libs. Also, it'd be nice if there were options to dh_strip, dh_compress, etc, to allow inclusion of directories and exclusion of files based on filename globbing. (Request from Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>) +* docbase support (#25233). Waiting for docbase to stabilize and be used + widely. +* dhelp support. Currently pending on dhelp use becoming widespead (#18342) * Support use of environment variables in data taken from user, ie, in debian/dirs. The problem with doing this is that we really want to allow any filenames in that input, even those that look like environment @@ -49,8 +55,8 @@ Wishlist items: Deprecated: -* remove dh_installdebfiles, dh_du. - - need to wait a reasonable length of - time. I'm currently planning on doing this after slink is released or - one year after they were deprecated, whichever comes first. Be sure to - grep whole debian archive for all of them before removing them, though! +* remove dh_installdebfiles, dh_du. + - need to wait a reasonable length of time. I'm currently planning + on doing this after slink is released or one year after they were + deprecated, whichever comes first. Be sure to grep whole debian + archive for all of them before removing them, though! |